Are TEXAN Children Better Off Under Trump? We Now Lead The Nation In Uninsured Children

[DaveTV1]

3 hours ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

Why not a response to the pedophilia and child murder your party suppresses????

President Trump has been doing a fine job on shutting down pedophilia rings recently.  Obama just let it run rampant.  

[KirtFalcon]

Subtract out the illegals and show me the numbers ....

[TheShadowKnows]

12 hours ago, JETT said:

Thankfully my wife is a nurse and my son is covered under her work.... no way could I afford to pay out of pocket for my family 

If hospitals would tell you the price before hand, that would help us all out. Instead of seeing how much ones insurance will pay then charge a price like they do now. I bet price would go

down 

[trashyhound]

19 hours ago, BarryLaverty said:

Now, I have been visiting lately on here with some who love 'unborn children' more than old people. What about our children who are alive? All bets are off when they are born? Trump hasn't made this better. In FACT, he has played a role in our plunge to the bottom of those insured. 
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/10/09/texas-children-without-health-coverage-swelled-to-nearly-1-million-last-year-up-32-over-three-years/
Texas children without health coverage swelled to nearly 1 million last year, up 32% over three years

Texas – and Dallas County – also retained their dismal rankings in share of their youths who lacked insurance. This year’s recession, not yet captured in data, won’t help.

Business leaders, health-care industry executives, liberal activists and Democrats want the Texas Legislature next year to expand Medicaid, as well as remove roadblocks to children's enrollment in government health insurance programs for low-income people. Medicaid expansion has been blocked in Texas, despite protests such as this one in Dallas in 2015.(Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)

By Robert T. Garrett

5:00 AM on Oct 9, 2020

 

AUSTIN — While most children don’t need expensive health care, some do — and a growing lack of insurance coverage nationally has worsened even more in Texas.

Over the past three years, the number of uninsured children under 19 in the state has increased by 32.3%, to nearly 1 million, according to a Georgetown University study to be released early Friday.

Nationwide, there are about 726,000 more uninsured kids than there were three years ago — with 243,000 of them in Texas.

“One-third of the total increase in the number of uninsured children from 2016 to 2019 live in Texas,” the report by Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families said. “The state saw by far the greatest coverage loss over the period.”

 

As was the case a year ago, the center found that half of the country’s 10 counties with the most children lacking health insurance are in Texas. Dallas and Tarrant counties still are among the top five U.S. counties for the number of uninsured kids — with 122,000 and 67,000, respectively.

Even though Harris County with 195,000 uninsured children has more, Dallas County’s youth uninsured rate was 17% in 2019, higher than the 16.7% of Hidalgo County in South Texas and Harris' 15%. Tarrant’s was 11.7%.

 

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The numbers would be even worse if they included the coronavirus outbreak’s effects, the Georgetown researchers said.

But data for 2020, capturing a recession-driven decline in employer-provided coverage to families, wasn’t available.

Lead researcher Joan Alker of Georgetown and her allies in Texas, such as the Children’s Defense Fund and Texans Care for Children, say the state could cover more kids and give them preventive care and wellness checks that would detect chronic conditions early, saving taxpayers and employers money over time.

They advocate granting 12 months of continuous coverage to children on Medicaid and removing the state’s frequent asset and income checks that bump children of seasonal workers from Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Pushing to expand Medicaid

 

An increasingly vocal coalition that includes business leaders, health care industry executives, liberal activists and Democrats want the Legislature next year to take those steps and one that’s even more politically fraught: Expand Medicaid to low-income adults of working age, as encouraged by Obamacare.

The chambers of commerce in North Texas support expansion, and the other changes. On Thursday members of the Texas House’s Democratic Caucus released a health policy agenda that includes Medicaid expansion and other steps to expand coverage of children.

Given Texas' hostility to the Affordable Care Act over the past decade, though, some say expansion only can happen if Texas seeks a waiver that, while freeing up the billions in federal matching money it’s been losing, also stresses personal responsibility. One way chosen by other states is to require regular job searches by many of the covered adults.

 

For years, state GOP leaders including Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick have criticized Medicaid, the state-federal program for low-income pregnant women and children, disabled Texans and some seniors. Washington’s one-size-fits-all rules make it inefficient, they argue.

Patrick Bresette of Children’s Defense Fund-Texas, though, said Thursday that “way too many” children in the state have lost coverage and foregone coverage they were entitled to “because of state and federal policy decisions.”

Bresette said it’s time “to ensure more Texas kids have the insurance they need so they can see their doctor, go to their check-ups, stay healthy for school and get their immunizations. Let’s roll up our sleeves and make sure that eligible kids are getting enrolled and staying enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP.”

‘Success story’ gone wrong

Georgetown’s Alker said declines in rates of coverage for kids between 2016 and last year also were the result of federal cuts to Affordable Care Act outreach and enrollment assistance, as well as confusion and fear among families with members of mixed immigration status because of the Trump administration’s so-called “public charge” rule. It factors in an immigrant’s use or potential use of certain public assistance programs when he or she applies for legal status.

 

“For decades, children’s health coverage had been a national success story that we could point to with pride, but the data shows the trend is now going in the wrong direction,” she said.

“What’s worse, the number of children losing coverage accelerated from 2018 to 2019 during a time when unemployment was very low. The situation is likely worse today.”

The report noted that some states — including New York, Minnesota and Maryland — increased the share of their children who were covered between 2016 and 2019, though the percentages in Texas, Florida and many other Southern states slipped.

Last year Texas continued to be home to more uninsured children under 19 than any of the 49 other states or the District of Columbia, the report found.

Texas even has regained an undesirable superlative: In 2016, Alaska had the nation’s worst uninsured rate for children — 10.3%, compared with Texas' 9.8% that year. In 2019, Texas' rate of 12.7% ranked 51st.

So I guess to sum up your position on the matter: 

If our terrible President won't get those kids free health insurance then we'd be better off killing those kids while their still in the womb? 

Pretty normal Democrat reasoning right there.

[BarryLaverty]

1 hour ago, trashyhound said:

So I guess to sum up your position on the matter: 

If our terrible President won't get those kids free health insurance then we'd be better off killing those kids while their still in the womb? 

Pretty normal Democrat reasoning right there.

No, but it does reinforce again how much you see them as cheap political items, caring about them until they are born. Good for you. 

[Youngcoach123]

1 minute ago, BarryLaverty said:

No, but it does reinforce again how much you see them as cheap political items, caring about them until they are born. Good for you. 

I think this is you projecting what you yourself are doing. Using misleading stats about kids to try and score political points. 

[trashyhound]

3 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

No, but it does reinforce again how much you see them as cheap political items, caring about them until they are born. Good for you. 

Got me again. Man you're good.

Not murdering babies > uninsured babies! 

[ctown81]

7 hours ago, BarryLaverty said:

No, but it does reinforce again how much you see them as cheap political items, caring about them until they are born. Good for you. 

Yeah it's pretty hypocritical.

[ctown81]

2 hours ago, AllGoodNamesRGone said:

Lol that hilarious coming from a  Democrat.

So how you know I'm a Democrat?

[trashyhound]

18 hours ago, ctown81 said:

Yeah it's pretty hypocritical.

What did I say that was hypocritical? 

Please don't take big bad Barry's ugly interpretation as what I actually said. 

I called out his hypocrisy of his screaming about 200k (supposedly) dead from Covid, while voting for those who support the murder of 800k unborn babies per year. He countered by pointing out that big bad Trump allowed some children to be uninsured. I'll ask it again , 800k dead or uninsured? 

[BarryLaverty]

2 hours ago, trashyhound said:

What did I say that was hypocritical? 

Please don't take big bad Barry's ugly interpretation as what I actually said. 

I called out his hypocrisy of his screaming about 200k (supposedly) dead from Covid, while voting for those who support the murder of 800k unborn babies per year. He countered by pointing out that big bad Trump allowed some children to be uninsured. I'll ask it again , 800k dead or uninsured? 

Why do you pick and choose? Not enough capacity for empathy in your shriveled soul? 

[RETIREDFAN1]

The ONLY thing hypocritical on here is you people who support a political party that is all in FOR murdering babies AND covers up for pedophiles, trying to say you care about children......

[trashyhound]

5 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

Why do you pick and choose? Not enough capacity for empathy in your shriveled soul? 

I don't, you do. You pick whatever body count let's you throw a tantrum about the big mean orange man with zero regard for deaths from other causes. You jump on any nonsense thrown out about the China cold and how it's all Trump's fault while completely overlooking the hundred other things that kill more people, including the practice of slaughtering unborn babies that you and your puppet politicians endorse. 

But like always, when you're on the losing side of an argument do the Democrat thing and start name calling! 

[trashyhound]

10 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said:

Why do you pick and choose? Not enough capacity for empathy in your shriveled soul? 

You knowingly vote for the killers of babies to the tune of 800k per year, but I'm the one who lacks empathy? 

Yes sir, I'm definitely the one with the "shriveled soul"

[BoyzNdaHood]

3 hours ago, ctown81 said:

So how you know I'm a Democrat?

What you mean? He knows everything 

[ctown81]

4 hours ago, trashyhound said:

What did I say that was hypocritical? 

Please don't take big bad Barry's ugly interpretation as what I actually said. 

I called out his hypocrisy of his screaming about 200k (supposedly) dead from Covid, while voting for those who support the murder of 800k unborn babies per year. He countered by pointing out that big bad Trump allowed some children to be uninsured. I'll ask it again , 800k dead or uninsured? 

I was speaking about the party not you. 

[ctown81]

2 hours ago, AllGoodNamesRGone said:

Cause joe tells u

Are you 5 yrs old or something?

[ctown81]

1 hour ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

The ONLY thing hypocritical on here is you people who support a political party that is all in FOR murdering babies AND covers up for pedophiles, trying to say you care about children......

so only democrats have abortions?

[ctown81]

1 minute ago, AllGoodNamesRGone said:

Are you questioning if you ain’t black. Surely not

I honestly don't know how to respond to this.

[ctown81]

2 minutes ago, AllGoodNamesRGone said:

Joe said it do you not realize. You been getting played for years so I am not sure why you’re confused.

ALL politicians have been playing people for years.

[RETIREDFAN1]

46 minutes ago, ctown81 said:

so only democrats have abortions?

Keeping abortion legal is a plank in the demturds platform....it is NOT in the GOP platform.....

[DAWG91]

On 10/9/2020 at 11:14 AM, ObiOne said:

Say what? I thought you were rolling in it in Winona.  Building a big house and having the nicest ranch.  If you wouldn't be able to afford insurance for your family, you might need to talk to a financial planner.  Maybe cut back a little sq footage here or there.  What happens if your wife can't work?  Maybe call Aflac too

What are the odds he offers employer based insurance for his platoon of illegals?

[trashyhound]

1 hour ago, ctown81 said:

I was speaking about the party not you. 

Roger that.

[BoyzNdaHood]

1 hour ago, DAWG91 said:

What are the odds he offers employer based insurance for his platoon of illegals?

Sounds as if someone is jealous, only reason to keep bringing up what we have going on over here... stay in your place bud my employees are taken care of over here... NEXT QUESTION?

[Wild74]

Obama Care drove the price of insurance sky high where even the poor kids in Texas cannot afford it, of course I don't know a lot of kids that buy insurance these days, probably not on their priority list, maybe it will make their bucket list in the future